Introduction to the Free Being Me Activity Packs

1. Introduction to the Free Being Me Activity Packs

2. Quiz Aims • Understand the aims of the Free Being Me Activity Packs • Discover how to improve girls’ body confidence and self-esteem • Understand key concepts and language used in the Activity Packs • Understand the Free Being Me learning journey

3. Body confidence changes the world! Q1) Draw your vision of a world where everyone is happy with the way they look and feel confident being themselves!

4. Real change Q2) Fill in the figures for the statistics below: Three years after doing the Body Project: • had significantly improved body confidence • had better relationships with their peers • were more confident and capable at school. 60% 71% 78%

5. Activity Pack Key Messages Q3) In the box below, match up the key messages from each Activity Pack:

6. 7-10s: What will girls learn? • Society gives us a narrow definition, but in reality there is not just one way to be beautiful • There is huge diversity of beauty ideals around the world • Focussing on what we like about ourselves and our bodies, helps keep up our body confidence and of those around us. • What’s inside you matters more than the outside

7. 11-14s: What will girls learn? • Society’s definition of beauty is very narrow and impossible to achieve – it’s an Image Myth • There are lots of negative consequences to trying to look like the Image Myth • Focussing on what we like about ourselves and our bodies, helps keep up our body confidence and of those around us.

8. The Learning Journey Free Being Me will take girls on a journey, encouraging them to speak out against the Image Myth and in turn become more body confident through four simple steps. Q4) Match each step to its definition in the correct order:

9. Q4) The FBM Learning Journey

10. How to ensure Free Being Me activities make a difference to body confidence Speak out • Giving each individual space to speak out • In front of a group • Speaking positively about our bodies Repeat • Challenging the Image Myth in lots of different ways

11. How we’re boosting body confidence • Q5) Which of the following activities boosts body confidence (more than one can be correct): • Participants come up with their own answers to Body Talk statements. • Participants talk about which aspects of their body they don’t like. • Participants create their own Magazine that celebrates feeling good about yourself and promotes many different ways of being beautiful.

12. Personal Challenges At the end of each session, participants are given a personal challenge to complete before the next session. Q6) What is the purpose of the personal challenge? The personal challenges provide girls with a chance to reflect on what they have learned, and use their learning in a different environment.

13. The Activity Packs’ Structure Q7) In the Activity Packs, what does the star next to some of the activities mean? A) The activities marked with a star are essential activities. If you had limited time and were not able to do all the activities, you should at least do the starred activities to have the best possibility in changing girls’ body confidence.

14. Take Action At the end of Free Being Me, each group has the chance to share the Free Being Me message by planning and implementing a Take Action project. Q8) To gain a badge and spread the word each participant’s Take Action project should reach out to a minimum of how many people? • Two girls / boys of their age who haven’t taken part in Free Being Me

15. Activity Packs’ Structure Q9) The Activity Packs can be delivered in the following way: a) 5 sessions including the Take Action project b) In a camp over a few days c) Both of the above

16. Supporting Leaders Q10) When a leader downloads the Activity Packs what other resource will be available to them to support them in delivering Free Being Me? A) The Leader Guide which includes the following: • Background to the FBM Activity Packs • FAQ’s • Glossary • Alternative session plans • Parent Letter

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